RealClearReligion Week of December 29, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 29

The Good Book Is Great

J. Peder Zane RealClearPolitics

Trump Aides’ Official Religious Messages for Christmas Draw Objections

WaPo

Americans Reject Religion in Record Numbers, Study Shows

Daily Beast

God as Black

Lauren Jackson The New York Times

C.S. Lewis Was Too Cynical About Christmas

Francis X. Maier Wall Street Journal

Praise God for 300! It Began Because of Him and His Burial Shroud

Townhall

As Priests Face Burnout, Catholic U. Grant Aims to Boost Support

O. Daniels WP

Two Prophets of American Faith

David Wolpe The Free Press

The Meaning of Ezekiel’s Vision of the Dry Bones

Matthew J. Suriano The Torah

That None Should Fall

Cassandra Nelson Comment

On Our Present Anti-Institutional Age

Jacob Wolf Philanthropy Daily

Churches Should Pay for Weddings to Promote Marriage

Anugrah Kumar CPost

Pope Leo vs. Palantir

Antonio Spadaro Commonweal

Tuesday, December 30

Wikipedia Editors are Quietly Secularising Religion

Ashley Rindsberg UnHerd

Religious Freedom Is the Soul of American Security

Christopher J. Motz First Things

Ben Sasse Reminds Us That Life Is Precious

Kathryn Jean Lopez National Review

Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew—Is Their “Unity of Faith” Possible?

EC

Is the Future of MAGA Anti-Israel?

Jonathan Mahler The New York Times

Mosque Bombing in Syria Leaves 8 Dead and 18 Wounded

Religion News Service

Tolkien Reminds Us God Still Controls History

Cheryl Forbes Christianity Today

Seventy-Five Years of Narnia

Michael Ward Plough

Day 6: Personal Meaning

Walter Russell Mead Providence

St. Augustine: Out of Africa

Michael A.G. Haykin Acton Institute

On Christ and Coral

Matthew J. Milliner Comment

‘Chazak!’ Let Us Be Strengthened!

Rabbi Yossy Goldman Jewish News Syndicate

Wednesday, December 31

The Top Religion News Stories of 2025

Paul O'Donnell Religion News Service

Why 2026 Will Be the Year of Leo

Jonathan Liedl National Catholic Register

The New Saints and Blesseds of 2025

J. J. Ziegler Catholic World Report

Why ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Religion Falls Short

Jack Butler Wall Street Journal

Mamdani Will Be First N.Y.C. Mayor to Use the Quran at His Swearing-In

NYT

Buddhist Monks Persist in Peace Walk Despite Injuries

AP News

Day 7: Meaning in 3-D

Walter Russell Mead Providence

Antisemitism as a Public Relations Problem

L. Sadacka Jewish News Syndicate

A Year of Contrasts

Heidi Schlumpf Commonweal

Friday, January 2

Beijing’s Battle Against God and the Chinese People

Doug Bandow Acton Institute

We’re Living Through the Great Detachment

David Brooks The New York Times

How The Titanic Sank My Understanding Of Redemption

J. Young Sacred Outcasts

How Big is the ‘God Gap’ Between Republicans and Democrats?

B. Tomco Deseret

Racial, Religious Hate Crime on UK Public Transport is Growing

L Brooks Guardian

The Hindu Attacks on India’s Christians

Tunku Varadarajan Wall Street Journal

Zohran Mamdani Officially Sworn in on a Quran Full of Symbolism

S. Riddle AP

A Blessing for Dinah

Dalia Davis Times of Israel

Making Men

Richard V. Reeves Comment

God’s Dilemma

Walter Russell Mead Providence

A Baptist Cheer For Cultural Christianity

Daniel Darling First Things

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